It’s Nice That

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It’s Nice That believes passionately that creative inspiration is for everyone and by championing the most exciting and engaging work online, in print and through our events programme, we want to open up this world to the widest possible audience.
Founded in 2007, It’s Nice That has grown across many platforms and has a reach of over half a million readers a month. These include the website which is updated daily, a bi-annual magazine Printed Pages, a summer symposium Here and the monthly Nicer Tuesdays talks series.
As well as publishing inspirational work, we also harness this creative expertise to help brands communicate their messages to our audience and beyond through our creative agency INT Works. Source

Recent Articles

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In his second attempt at a stop motion feature, Wes Anderson has hit the nail on the head. On the face of it, Isle of Dogs has all the ingredients of a great action film: corruption, chase scenes, a rogue-to-hero character arc, and a final stand-off Stan Lee would be proud of. All that, spiced with the brilliantly quick wit of a Wes Anderson classic – up there with Rushmore – and incredible production design that calls for multiple viewings to take it all in.

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“My parents wanted me to be an architect, I always wanted to do fine art,” Dham Srifuengfung tells It’s Nice That. Dham, a Bangkok-born and now London-based photographer, obeyed his parents’ wishes for a while studying architecture at university before switching pathways to create his own route, completing a masters in cinematography and photography. Initially, Dham used photography purely as a helpful tool to record the mediums he was studying.

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Graphic designer and artist Anthony Burrill is opening a new solo show in London’s Jealous East gallery that ups the scale of his well-known typographic work for extra impact. Working closely with the gallery and screenprint studio, Anthony has created two special editions of works including I Like It. What Is It? and Work Hard & Be Nice To People on a much larger scale, using a vintage steam roller.

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After working with the On Off for September 2017’s Fashion Week, The Beautiful Meme have created yet another compelling identity for the London-based creative platform that showcases young up-and-coming designers. Drawing on Dali’s Nocturnal Spectre on the Beach, the creative studio produced an alluringly eerie backdrop animation that featured dispersed archaic sculptures against a black background.

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“From an early age I’ve been fascinated by Nasa, its cosmos and the idea of travelling through outer space to different planets,” explains Stuttgart-based designer Steffen Knöll. When researching exoplanets (those with the potential to be inhabited by humans), he stumbled upon the Nasa Archive: an image bank full of high-resolution files, in the public domain, and couldn’t help but focus his diploma project on the wealth of material.

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‘Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe’ is a group show of photography exploring new visual representations of lifestyle and landscape in Eastern Europe. The exhibition, that opens at the Calvert 22 gallery in London this week, gathers the work of a young generation of artists rising to prominence a quarter century after the end of Communism.

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After David Attenborough drew much-needed attention to the global crisis in oceanic plastic pollution in Blue Planet II, the government and the Church of England used the discussion’s momentum to make strides in environmental awareness. Then, the BBC announced it would be working towards banning single-use plastics across the corporation by 2020. Here, Creativebrief editor Kara Melchers spells out why she thinks plastic isn’t a consumer problem, it’s a design problem with attainable solutions.

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“I put smiley faces on almost every character I draw,” explains London-based illustrator Lily Kong, "I believe making happy work is a fundamental element of my creative practice.” Lily’s illustrated world of greenery and squishy characters caught our eye due to its energy but also the fact that we couldn’t stop smiling. Born in Newcastle, Lily grew up in Hong Kong studying “all of the academic subjects” in her secondary education.

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Nicholas Bonner began the evening of talks with his fascinating insight to graphic design in North Korea. Based in Beijing, Nicholas, a landscape architect turned filmmaker and self proclaimed graphic hoarder, bound all his findings together in Made in North Korea: Graphics from Everyday life in the DPRK, published by Phiadon.

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The intersection between handcrafted creative processes and digital technology lies at the heart of graphic designer Samuel Bloch’s work. After graduating from London’s College of Communication, the Parisian designer found himself working on a number of different projects, including an internship at It’s Nice That’s much-loved Studio Feixen. His career choice is perhaps unsurprising to those that know Samuel, who was born into a creative environment and immersed in inspiring art from a young age.

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